[89] State Papers, 1682, February 15.
[90] Calamy’s Continuation, 139.
[91] I copied these extracts many years ago from the old Church books, now unfortunately lost. In the State Paper Office, under date of the 2nd February, 1682, there is a long report of the political sentiments of people in different parts of Norfolk, in which report,—besides mention of the Anabaptists and the Quakers worshipping under one roof, and of a clergyman in the Commission of the Peace, an itinerant Justice, “who rides all the circuit, and makes disturbances wherever he comes by his pragmaticalness and unskilfulness in the laws”—a reference is made to Dr. Collinges, a very respectable Presbyterian minister at Norwich, and it is suggested, “were he removed, it is probable many of that sect would fall off.”
[92] Morice MSS., Entring Book, i., 1682, November 21.
[93] December 30.
[94] December 14.
[95] November 30, December 7.
[96] December 14, February 6, 1682–3. “On Monday, in the Common Pleas, some citizens were cited, because they did not receive the sacrament at Easter by their minister, the Churchwardens saying they believed that they did not receive it then. But because the process saith not what Easter it was, and because there was no sacrament at their church the last Easter; and further, because the Churchwardens do but believe they did not receive it, therefore a prohibition was granted unless cause be shown to the contrary.”
The Countess of Aylesbury was informed against for being at a Conventicle.—March 15, 1684.
[97] December 14, 1682; March, 1683.